A pretty great day with sunny and very warm weather, although as is always the case in O'ahu it can be sunny one minute and pouring with rain the next and this was certainly true of today as we got up and made ourselves some vegan breakfast tacos and then headed out to grab a coffee to drink on Waikiki beach. Great sunny day until the second we set foot on the beach when it started raining.
We persevered and were rewarded with hot sun within 5 minutes. We say watching the Waikiki world unfold and just enjoyed another day pretty much in paradise. Once the sun became a little too hot we headed off for some lunch before returning to our apartment to change into our swimmers and head back down for one last swim in the crystal clear Hawaiian waters.
Once again the water was beautiful, although we had to negotiate a shallow reef just below the surface before finding a spot where there was mostly sand and some depth so we could swim. We stayed swimming for around 45 minutes and then sadly had to head back to our apartment to start the packing for our departure and flights to New York City.
In amongst packing and clothes washing chores I managed to sneak back down to the beach for some sunset photos with my real camera, although I got there about 10 minutes after I would have liked so most images are after the sun set beyond the ocean horizon.
Back to the apartment for final frantic packing activities and then into our cab for the journey to the airport. A pretty easy check in although both Sharon and I were body scanned for explosives.
The flight to Seattle was an overnight redeye flight and not really much fun/ We were in the very last row near the toilets and with seats that did not recline even attempted sleep was impossible. We made it to Seattle early in the morning and bought ourselves some coffee and something to eat and waiting for another 3 hours for our connecting flight to Newark, New Jersey.
The flight was pretty good although we were not seated together and finally made it to Newark around 5:30pm. Collected out bags and called the car service company we had booked who then bought us into Manhattan through the pretty bad Friday night Holiday season traffic to our apartment in the Midtown area.
